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No Phil, I think you should read the words again. If we were under communism, the Internet would not exist at all. Such freedoms would not be allowed. But thanks for thinking that someone like myself could even begin to create the Internet! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif I am flattered!

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I think your confusing "communism" and "dictatorship" there. A surprisingly common mistake.

Even so if the US was under a dictatorship that surpressed all freedoms there'd still be a internet in the rest of the world, a bit less stuff on it but on the plus side less idiots. Swings and roundabouts.

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Correct. However that's not what I was *****ing about.

When the price of oil goes -up-, gas prices track it very, very closely..even though, again, the oil won't be delivered as gas for weeks.

When the price of oil goes -down- prices DON'T track if closely at all. For exactly the same reason I stated above: the oil hasn't been delivered as gas yet. Funny how it only works in one direction, isn't it?

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Not really, or at least I don't see anyone else laughing.

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I guess the only option is to get a horse! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

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Screw riding a Horse, the Democrats would eat you alive on environmental impact fees, and find a way to tax you right off the saddle.

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When you look at the price of a hybrid vehicle compared to the price on an equivalent conventional vehicle, it still may not make good economical sense to buy the hybrid. You save on gas, but for the average driver, it will take many years for those savings to add up to make the hybrid worthwhile. By the time the extra cost of the hybrid pays for itself, the battery may wear out. Like all batteries, there's a limited number of recharge / discharge cycles that it is good for before it degrades and need to be replaced. It will probably be expensive to replace the battery if it fails after the warranty expires. But if gas prices keep going up like they have been recently, hybrids will become increasingly attractive.

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You know I could have predicted AT would say that. Not to say your occasionaly predictable, but Stevie Wonder could have seen that coming. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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Ok, so its a bad joke. My bad. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif I was watching the West Wing and they had an episode about something, and one of the characters made the comment about adding a $3.00 per gallon tax on gas to force people into finding alterative mobility sources and it just rang out to me... more TAX revenue, of course!

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Hey guys, lets try to have fewer personal attacks and insults and more rational debate... makes for a much nicer place.